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The Cross-Cut

CHAPTER XXII
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You say that you 're going to be here?
That's a help.

They 're shy a nurse on this floor to-night, and I 'm having a pretty busy time of it.

I 'm very much afraid that poor old Judge Richmond 's going to lay down his cross before morning." "He 's dying ?" Fairchild said it with a clutching sensation at his throat.

The physician nodded.
"There 's hardly a chance for him." "You 're going there ?" "Yes." "Will you please give-- ?" The physician waited.

Finally Fairchild shook his head.
"Never mind," he finished.


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